CyberWire Daily

CyberWire Daily

The daily cybersecurity news and analysis industry leaders depend on. Published each weekday, the program also includes interviews with a wide spectrum of experts from industry, academia, and research organizations all over the world.

Episodes

July 20, 2025 8 mins
Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes: Associate Director at Raytheon Intelligence and Space in the Cyber Protection Services Division Anisha Patel always loved math and it defined her career journey. As a first-generation American from an Asian household, Anisha said she was destined for a STEM-focused career and chose electrical engineering. She began her career and remains at Raytheon (formerly E-Systems) working in several...
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This week, we are pleased to be joined by ⁠George Glass⁠, Associate Managing Director of ⁠Kroll⁠'s Cyber Risk business, as he is discussing their research on Scattered Spider and their targeting of insurance companies. While Scattered Spider has recently turned its attention to the airline industry, George focuses on the broader trend of the group’s industry-by-industry approach and what that means for defenders across sectors. Ge...
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July 18, 2025 29 mins
The UK sanctions Russian military intelligence officers tied to GRU cyber units. An AI-powered malware called LameHug targets Windows systems. Google files a lawsuit against the operators of the Badbox 2.0 botnet. A pair of healthcare data breaches impact over 3 million individuals. Researchers report a phishing attack that bypasses FIDO authentication by exploiting QR codes. A critical flaw in Nvidia’s Container Toolkit threatens ...
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July 17, 2025 33 mins
Pro-Russian Hackers, scam lords, and ransomware gangs face global justice. Louis Vuitton ties customer data breaches to a single cyber incident. The White House is developing a “Zero Trust 2.0” cybersecurity strategy. OVERSTEP malware targets outdated SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) devices. An Australian political party suffers a massive ransomware breach. Our guest Jacob Oakley speaks with T-Minus Space Daily host Maria Varm...
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Google and Microsoft issue critical updates. CISA warns of active exploitation of a critical flaw in Wing FTP Server. Cloudflare restores their DNS Resolver service following a brief outage. A critical vulnerability in a PHP documentation tool allows attackers to execute code on affected servers. NSA and FBI officials say they’ve disrupted Chinese cyber campaigns targeting U.S. critical infrastructure. A UK data breach puts Afghan ...
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A DOGE employee leaks private API keys to GitHub. North Korea’s “Contagious Interview” campaign has a new malware loader. A New Jersey diagnostic lab suffers a ransomware attack. A top-grossing dark web marketplace goes dark in what experts believe is an exit scam. MITRE launches a cybersecurity framework to address threats in cryptocurrency and digital financial systems. Experts fear steep budget cuts and layoffs under the Trump a...
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July 14, 2025 34 mins
British and Romanian authorities make arrests in a major tax fraud scheme. The Interlock ransomware gang has a new RAT. A new vulnerability in Google Gemini for Workspace allows attackers to hide malicious instructions inside emails. Suspected Chinese hackers breach a major DC law firm.  Multiple firmware vulnerabilities affect products from Taiwanese manufacturer Gigabyte Technology. Nvidia warns against Rowhammer attacks across i...
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Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Director of Google Cloud's Office of the CISO, MK Palmore, dedicated much of his life to public service and now brings his experience working for the greater good to the private sector. A graduate of the US Naval Academy, including the Naval Academy Prep School that he calls the most impactful educational experience of his life, MK commissioned into the US Marine Corps following his servic...
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Today we are joined by ⁠Selena Larson⁠, Threat Researcher at ⁠Proofpoint⁠, and co-host of ⁠Only Malware in the Building⁠, as she discusses their work on "Amatera Stealer - Rebranded ACR Stealer With Improved Evasion, Sophistication." Proofpoint researchers have identified Amatera Stealer, a rebranded and actively developed malware-as-a-service (MaaS) variant of the former ACR Stealer, featuring advanced evasion techniques like NTSo...
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July 11, 2025 31 mins
Fortinet patches a critical flaw in its FortiWeb web application firewall.  Hackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability in Wing FTP Server. U.S. Cyber Command’s fiscal 2026 budget includes a new AI project.  Czechia’s cybersecurity agency has issued a formal warning about Chinese AI company DeepSeek. The DoNot APT group targets Italy’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mexico’s former president is under investigation for alleged bri...
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July 10, 2025 35 mins
UK police make multiple arrests in the retail cyberattack case.  French authorities arrest a Russian basketball player at the request of the U.S. A German court declares open season on Meta’s tracking pixels. The European Union unveils new rules to regulate artificial intelligence. London’s Iran International news confirms cyberattacks from Banished Kitten. Treasury sanctions a North Korean hacker over fake IT worker schemes. Micro...
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July 9, 2025 29 mins
Patch Tuesday. An Iranian ransomware group puts a premium on U.S. and Israeli targets. Batavia spyware targets Russia’s industrial sector. HHS fines a Texas Behavioral Health firm for failed risk analysis. The Anatsa banking trojan targets financial institutions in the U.S. and Canada. Hackers abuse a legitimate commercial evasion framework to package infostealer payloads. Researchers discovered malicious browser extensions infecti...
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July 8, 2025 30 mins
Researchers release proof-of-concept exploits for CitrixBleed2. Grafana patches four high-severity vulnerabilities. A hacker claims to have breached Spanish telecom giant Telefónica. Italian police arrest a Chinese man wanted by U.S. authorities for alleged industrial espionage. Beware of a new ransomware group called Bert. Call of Duty goes offline after reports of RCE vulnerabilities. President Trump's spending bill allocates hun...
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July 7, 2025 37 mins
Ingram Micro suffers a ransomware attack by the SafePay gang. Spanish police dismantle a large-scale investment fraud ring. The SatanLock ransomware group says it is shutting down. Brazilian police arrest a man accused of stealing over $100 million from the country’s banking system. Qantas confirms contact from a “potential cybercriminal” following its recent customer data breach. The XWorm RAT evolves to better evade detection. Cy...
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Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Ground Labs' Head of Engineering, Swati Shekhar, shares her circuitous route from and back to engineering. Always being interested in leveraging the tools available to solve problems, Swati talks about how she found her place in engineering. She mentions how she had her first real experience with a computer when she was 17 in her first year at college. Aside from being one of 30 young wom...
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Please enjoy this encore of Research Saturday. This week we are joined by ⁠⁠Silas Cutler⁠⁠, Principal Security Researcher at ⁠⁠Censys⁠⁠, asking the important question of "Will the Real Volt Typhoon Please Stand Up?" The FBI's disruption of the KV Botnet in December 2023, attributed to the Chinese threat group Volt Typhoon, targeted infected systems but did not affect the botnet's control infrastructure. Despite law enforcement ...
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Please enjoy this encore from our T-Minus Space Daily segment Deep Space. Parker Wishik⁠ from ⁠The Aerospace Corporation⁠ explores how experts are turning data into decisions in the space industry on the latest Nexus segment. Parker is joined by⁠ Jackie Barbieri⁠, Founder and CEO of ⁠Whitespace⁠, and Dr. Steve Lewis, Leader of The Aerospace Corporations’s ⁠SPEAR team⁠. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favo...
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While the N2K CyberWire team is observing Independence Day in the US, we thought you'd enjoy this episode of Threat Vector from our podcast network. Listen in and bust those cyber myths. In this episode of Threat Vector, David Moulton talks with Lisa Plaggemier, Executive Director of the National Cybersecurity Alliance. Lisa shares insights from this year’s “Oh Behave!” report and dives into why cybersecurity habits remain uncha...
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July 3, 2025 32 mins
Sudo patch your Linux systems. Cisco has removed a critical backdoor account that gave remote attackers root privileges. The Hunters International ransomware group rebrands and closes up shop. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) notifies 103,000 people that their personal data was compromised. NimDoor is a sophisticated North Korean cyber campaign targeting macOS. Researchers uncover a massive phishing campaign usi...
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July 2, 2025 38 mins
French authorities report multiple entities targeted by access brokers. A ransomware group extorts a German hunger charity. AT&T combats SIM swapping and account takeover attacks. A Missouri physician group suffers a cyber attack. Qantas doesn’t crash, but their computers do. Researchers uncover multiple critical vulnerabilities in Agorum Core Open. A student loan administrator in Virginia gets hit by the Akira ransomware group. Th...
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